" I think, therefore I am". This phrase, quoted often in science and mathematics, awoke a deep interest in me towards science while in High School. Ever since then, a tremendous urge to understand the world that surrounds me has hunted me. I oftentimes fall deep in thought attempting to understand who we are and where we have come from. These questions have not only hunted me, but they have also cause tremendous debates in our society. All these questions, concerns, doubts and hesitations are nothing but our natural ability to reason and logic. “ I think, therefore I am “ is the basic foundation upon which human beings have relied on in order to make more sense of their world, and this has not been an exception with writing. Famous writers and philosophers such as Miguel de Cervantes de Zaavedra, Plato, Shakespeare, and Machiavelli have found in writing a way to not only communicate, but also a medium through which they can make more sense or their world.

Perhaps after reading this you might think that I am a nerd, and although I would very much wanted so, the reality is that I am just a curious person who is only trying to understand his world a little bit better. I must confess that I lack intelligence, but my hunger to learn and understand the world is enough to get me through any class here at UCD.

In my blog I have posted a video, “The Ghost Particle” in which scientists are trying to understand where we have come from. According to this video, the “neutrinos” are our forefathers; that is, they are the foundation upon which life took place. The picture in the background is a gas cloud, which through the years condenses, collapses, and explodes scattering its enriched guts made of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients, collapse, compress, and form galaxies wherein stars with orbiting planets now have the fundamental ingredients for life to evolve. Therefore, according to this discovery, we are stardust; our atoms come from the stars. I personally find this extremely interesting, and breathtaking.

These particular interests may influence my experience with English 3 in a very positive manner due to the fact that trough writing, logic, and reason I shall try to make sense of my own world. I hope to gain knowledge and understanding, but most of all I hope to grow as a person and human being.